The Ukrainian Security Service has released what it calls “intercepted phone conversations,” which are supposed to prove that Donetsk self-defense forces shot down Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight on Thursday – presumably, by mistake.

The 2:33 minute clip,
which Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) posted on YouTube in
Ukrainian, English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Turkish and
Japanese versions, consists of three separate
“conversations.”

The first “conversation” allegedly takes place between –
according to SBU’s titles – militia group commander nicknamed
“Bes” (“Igor Bezler”) and his alleged coordinator,
“Vasily Geranin,” who is titled in the video as “a
colonel of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff
of the Russian Armed Forces.”

“Bes” and “Geranin” are speaking about a downing of a jet,
without clarifying if it’s a military or a civilian aircraft.

The second “conversation,” which allegedly happens
between anti-Kiev militia members – nicknamed “Major” and “Grek”
– reveals that the crashed plane was “a 100 per cent
passenger aircraft.”

The third and final segment sets things straight as an unnamed
“militia member” tells an alleged “Cossack
commander” titled as “Nikolay Kozitsin,” that there’s
‘Malaysia Airlines’ marking on the downed plane.

The Western media has picked up the news, despite it being
impossible to verify the authenticity of the leaked
conversations.

Meanwhile, some alternative media outlets are already accusing
Kiev authorities of cooking up a fake.

The commentators point out that the discussion between “Bes” and
“Geranin” may well refer to the Ukrainian Su-25 jet, which
militia members downed on June 16.

There are also doubts spoken out, that that the unnamed “militia
member” from the third tape segment could distinguish “Malaysia
Airlines” marking on the aircraft as it was turned into rubble by
the crash and fell down in small pieces scattered around a large
territory.

RT has managed to contact Evgeny Kruzhin, who is a medic in the
militia group accused of bringing the plane down, through his
LIveJournal page. He told RT that the fighters nicknamed Major
and Grek really do exist, but claimed that they remained in the
town of Enakievo when the jet crashed – while the second
“conversation” on the tape says that the plane was
“shot down from the Chernukhino checkpoint.” Chernukhino
is a settlement located some 25 kilometers from Enakievo.

“Therefore, they have no connection to either the plane’s
downing, or the examination of the crash site,” Kruzhin
stressed.

Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 carrying almost 300 people on
board crashed on Thursday as it was flying over Ukraine’s Donetsk
Region.

The cause of the crash is yet to be established by investigators,
although both Kiev and the E.Ukrainian militias deny
responsibility and blame the other.

Donetsk militia declared that they simply don’t have the military
equipment to shoot down a plane from 10,000-meter altitude, while
Kiev said it could not have fired a missile at the passing
civilian plane because it had no Buk missile launchers deployed
in the region.

Meanwhile the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Ukrainian
military has several batteries of Buk surface-to-air missile
systems with at least 27 launchers, capable of bringing down
high-flying jets, in the Donetsk region where the Malaysian
passenger plane crashed.